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DESCRIPTION:\n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nOn the evening of May 29
 \, 1912\, Vaslav Nijinsky\, the star dancer for the Ballets Russes troupe\
 , made his choreographic debut to a packed house at the Théâtre du Châtele
 t in Paris. Set in archaic Greece\, L’Après-midi d’un faune concerned a yo
 ung faun’s lustful and ultimately fruitless pursuit of two alluring nymphs
 \, which culminated in an onanistic sex act. The morning after\, the newsp
 aper Le Matin published a front-page article by “the great sculptor Rodin”
  that praised the ballet’s contribution to a modern aesthetic and compared
  its beauty with that of ancient Greek statuary. In the following days\, N
 ijinsky and Rodin were swept up in a scandal stirred by critics who denoun
 ced both artists for their perceived offenses against public morality. The
  affaire Nijinsky is one of the most famous scandals in the history of mod
 ern art\, yet there has been surprisingly little reflection on its causes 
 and effects. This talk will consider why Rodin and Nijinsky publicly tied 
 themselves to one another\, and what their decision to do so tells us abou
 t the connections between dance\, sculpture\, bodies\, and sex circa 1912.
  It will situate the scandal in the hyper-partisan atmosphere of the early
  French Third Republic and discuss its links to Parisian music-hall cultur
 e\, where the limits of tolerance for displays of sexuality were regularly
  tested. The talk will also relate this episode to Rodin’s successful camp
 aign to convert his studio in the Hôtel Biron into the Musée Rodin. It wil
 l show how Nijinsky helped Rodin to revolutionize the art of sculpture and
  to present himself as an embodiment of the Republic’s secular values.\n\n
 About the speaker: Juliet Bellow’s research centers on visual artists' exp
 erimentations with intermediality in the late nineteenth and early twentie
 th centuries. Her book Modernism on Stage: The Ballets Russes and the Pari
 sian Avant-Garde\, published in 2013 by Ashgate Press\, analyzes set and c
 ostume designs by Pablo Picasso\, Henri Matisse\, Sonia Delaunay and Giorg
 io de Chirico for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes troupe. She also served
  as Consulting Scholar for the 2013 exhibition 'Diaghilev and the Golden A
 ge of the Ballets Russes: When Art Danced With Music.' She has published i
 n the Art Bulletin\, Art Journal\, American Art\, and Modernism/modernity\
 , as well as exhibition catalogues on Auguste Rodin\, Henri Matisse\, Soni
 a Delaunay\, Merce Cunningham\, and Claude Debussy.\n	\n	Dr. Bellow's curren
 t book project\, entitled Rodin's Dancers: Sculpture in the Age of Spectac
 le\, is the first in-depth study of the artist's engagement with dance\, a
 nd the first to examine the intertwined histories of dance and sculpture a
 t a pivotal moment in the development of both media. This research was sup
 ported by a fellowship at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York U
 niversity.\n	\n	Dr. Bellow teaches courses on a range of thematic issues and
  materials relating to European art of the eighteenth\, nineteenth\, and t
 wentieth centuries\, including 'Art and Dance\, 1860-1960\,' 'Women and th
 e Avant-Garde\,' 'Revolutionary Aesthetics: Art and Politics in Nineteenth
 -Century France\,' and 'Museums and Society.'\n\n \n\nThe talk will be fol
 lowed by a reception in the AHCS hallway.\n
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LOCATION:Room W-215\, Arts Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 0G5\, 853 ru
 e Sherbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Juliet Bellow: 'Faunesque: Auguste Rodin\, Vaslav Nijinsky\, and Pu
 blic Sexuality in Paris\, ca. 1912'
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